Its real easy. Get some mineral oil and a heat gun. All you need for getting twist out. Oil it up, put the tip in a vice, and heat and slowly twist it straight. Key is to let the wood tell you when its ready to bend. As for reflex, simply cut a caul (board the shape you want your reflexin.), drill a hole in the end so you can clamp your tip down to it. Oil up the tips, heat and slowly bend it down to your caul. Once its down to the caul, clamp it down and let is set a bit. Ive done it using the back of a kitchen chair and used steam to bend it. Yea, the wife did not like the idea much. Didnt hurt anything. I think it made her mad because I waited for her to go to work before I did it, and she came home from work and found me bending a bow in the house using her nice pots to steam the ends, and her kitchen chair as a caul. Yea, I got that look all through lunch.